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Quotes About Escape

In The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter (a.k.a. Hannibal the Cannibal) taunts his pursuer by saying, "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.
~ Steven Pinker
When predictions of apocalyptic resource shortages repeatedly fail to come true, one has to conclude either that humanity has miraculously escaped from certain death again and again like a Hollywood action hero or that there is a flaw in the thinking that predicts apocalyptic resource shortages. The flaw has been pointed out many times.
~ Steven Pinker
If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
There is no escape if love is not there
~ Elizabeth George Speare
Love is a bird... she needs to fly.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can.
~ Lili Taylor
People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.
~ Peter Guber
I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.
~ John Denver
There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
~ Bill Condon
Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
~ Cornelia Funke
Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.
~ William Shakespeare
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
~ Jane Birkin
Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.
~ Rumi
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.
~ Michael Jackson
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.
~ Cassandra Clare
I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.
~ Ding Ling
I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.
~ Eve Best
I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.
~ Tim Vine
During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
~ Francois Truffaut
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.
~ Rumi
I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.
~ Sarah Dessen
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
~ D. H. Lawrence